156 DETENTION AT PITCAIRN. 
while many had exceedingly fine voices. The 
progress surpassed the most sanguine expec- 
tations of the teacher. On the fourth day they 
sang through a catch in four parts with great 
steadiness. For people who had hitherto been 
unaware even of the existence in nature of Aar- 
mony, the performance was very remarkable." 
Mr. Brodie has given the names of 57 pupils 
being 30 males, and 27 females, as the "list of 
Carleton's musical class." 
For some time their chief musical instrument 
in the church had been an accordion : but they 
have now an organ, which has been sent to 
them as a present. 
With regard to Mr. Brodie, it is worthy of 
remark, that, though he had been thus detained 
at Pitcairn, he arrived in the barque Colonist at 
San Francisco, in California, twenty- eight days 
before the Nolle, which had been ninety-three 
days from Pitcairn, the crew having suffered 
great privations from want of provision and 
water. His disappointment, which appeared so 
grievous, in missing his ship at Pitcairn, ended 
in his escaping the miseries to which the people 
in the Nolle had been exposed, and in reckoning 
those few weeks on Pitcairn' s Island as among 
the happiest of his life. 
